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Neg Earth are thrilled to have provided additional network and control equipment from Sundrax for the UK’s largest festival, Glastonbury. Sundrax, a company that usually operates in architectural, street & city, and stage & theatre lighting, provided nodes used on the stage output racks and as a part of the front-of-house input nodes provided by Neg at Glastonbury Festival 2022.

 

Ciarán Markey, Senior Network Technician at Neg, provided insight into Sundrax’s nodes and their debut performance at Glastonbury 2022.

 

“The Sundrax systems display a good and intuitive user experience on their web interface. It supplies a suitable range of settings but keeps in mind the efficiency and streamlined workflows needed for the industry.”

 

He continues, “Working directly with their technical sales and development team that supported the project on a 360° basis, we suggested a few new features and workflows to ensure our clients’ satisfaction and provided new ideas to the Sundrax development path.”

 

“We are excited about serving one of the most important festivals in the UK with our networking nodes,” expressed Dan Kurt, Sales Engineer at Sundrax. “Since we first started our business as an engineering team, we have always taken extra care to ensure that our products are reliable and fail-safe.”

 

“Rack-mounted ArtGate Pro by Sundrax has been specifically designed for touring and festivals. Two EtherCon ports provide additional switch functionality, PowerCON True1 input and thru output, and POE support” he continued. “We are proud to have worked with Neg on the Glastonbury Festival this year, and we are confident that many projects will come our way in the future.”

 

Overall, this was an incredible experience and we look forward to seeing Sundrax’s products used in further initiatives for the live events industry.

Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets has been touring the world in 2022 with lighting, motors, network system and control consoles from Neg Earth Lights.

The band, led by legendary Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, are lit by a varied rig including Clay Paky Scenius Unico, Sharpy Wash, and B-Eye K25, Martin Aura XBs and Robe Robin Spikie LED WashBeams.

Designers Patrick Woodroffe and Paul ‘PK’ Kell aimed to reproduce Pink Floyd’s liquid light shows from the 1960s. Using laser projectors combined with the traditional technique of mixing oil, water, printer ink and dyes on two transparent, concaved, clockfaces the team created unique imagery and reactions each time.

The oil mixing is performed live under camera each night and projected onto the custom backdrop via Neg’s media server.

Paul Howling, Lighting Operator for the forthcoming US tour, previously led video integration and oil mixing, recently handing the reins over to Rachel Axton.

Check out Rachel’s demonstration of liquid light here.

 

Lighting Designer: @paul_pk_kell & @patrickwoodroffe1

Production Manager: Pat Baker

Lighting Operator: Paul Howling

Video Operator: Paul Howling & Rachel Axton

Oils: Rachel Axton

Photographer: @will_ireland_photo

 

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On Monday 19th September, Neg Earth Lights Limited will be closed as a mark of respect to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her family.

We have, however, ensured that we will deliver our current clients’ needs on Monday with a core operational team in support on site.

Full operation will resume, as normal, on Tuesday 20th September 2022.

We join the country and commonwealth in a day of mourning and the celebration of our Queen’s reign.

 

Returning to Edinburgh Castle’s Esplanade after 3 years, The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo performed with the theme Voices under lighting designed by Adam Bassett.

Working closely with Technical Production Advisor, Keith Duncan, we provided over 427 lighting fixtures, 6.5km of cable, 8 distro racks, fibre network system and GrandMA3 control system.

Lighting Designer: Adam Bassett

Technical Production Advisor: Keith Duncan

Photos: The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo

 

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It was a pleasure to supply lighting and rigging for Westlife’s 2022 Stadium Tour. Featuring the all-new Ayrton Cobra alongside Chauvet Colour M and SGM Q8 Flood strobes.

 

Produced by @247productions
Creative Directors @weareblackskull
Lighting Design @tim_routledge_lighting_design
Production manager @Tbyjhnsn
Lighting Programming: @polarised.reality @suluko.ltd
TV Programming: @morgantevans
Lighting Vendor @negearthlights
Special FX – @strictlyfxuk
Stage Manager: @savile
Photos: @timmsy @raykeoghmedia @andrew_takes_photos_

 

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It was great to see Jessie J in action on her tour of Europe this summer.

Rigged and illuminated by our equipment, the tour heavily featured fixtures such as GLP Impression FR10 Bars and SGM Q-8s.

 

Set & lighting design – @morgantevans of TRLD @tim_routledge_lighting_design
Lighting vendor – @negearthlights @gavinmaze
Tour Manager – @markpickard
Production manager – @jamesnecro
Lighting Techs – @_billycoates & Adam Millard
Set construction – @oxeventhouse
Set Carp – Luke Taylor
Production – @247productions

Photos/video credit: @starlitefestival @morgantevans

 

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Lady Gaga’s 2022 tour had a recent stop over at our HQ last week upon completing the European leg of the tour.

Our equipment has since been shipped over to Canada for @ladygaga’s recent performance in Toronto on Saturday, and travelled to Washington, DC to kick off her USA/Japan leg of the tour yesterday!

 

 

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A Happy Tuesday with awesome artwork!

Our team work hard to take care of equipment and when a few pieces returned to HQ from Rammstein’s tour for some TLC, we found one of our flight case’s had been personalised.

Do you love it as much as us?

Congrats to Woodroffe Basset Design for putting on a fabulous lighting show.

We hope Rammstein and all crew involved keep on rocking for the remainder of their 2022 tour in the USA!

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Jungle have been touring world-wide in 2022, illuminated by our technology leading lighting equipment and designed by Cassius Creative. Equipment on the tour included MAC Viper Air FX, MAC Aura XB, TMB Solaris LED and our new-in SGM Q8 creating the iconic staging and lighting that identifies the group. Jungle is set to complete the EU festival tour and go on to Australia and the USA later this year.

Images from Brussels gig, taken by Martin De Gennes (@MartinDeGennes)

Production & Lighting Design: Cassius Creative

 

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Glastonbury Festival 2022 has been the hot topic this month, and we are thrilled to have supplied an array of equipment along with a great crew to set up the lighting and rigging on The Pyramid Stage and The Other Stage. Taking place from 22nd-26th June 2022, Glastonbury has been one of the UK’s leading festivals for decades, with their first ever show in 1970.

The five-day festival held in Pilton, Somerset, celebrates performing arts and contemporary music, wowing the audience with legendary artists and new musicians taking to the stage.

Artists such as Sir Paul McCartney, Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish, Lorde, Megan Thee Stallion, Pet Shop Boys and Elbow performed on the two stages, illuminated by our lighting and immersive visual displays.

We would like to recognise the hard work of the crew, who contributed in creating many spectacular lighting performances for these iconic artists. Neg Earth Project Manager, Gavin Maze, attended the festival and captured the very essence of peace, love and rock and roll in his photographs.

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